Seasonal variation of circulating plasma carotenoids in Mediterranean Great Tit males Parus major Esther del Val, Juan José Negro & Juan Carlos Senar a Behavioural and Evolutionary Ecology Research Unit (CSIC), Natural History Museum of Barcelona, Passeig Picasso s/n, 08003 Barcelona, Spain b Department of Evolutionary Ecology, Estación Biológica de Doñana (EBD-CSIC), C/ Americo Vespucio s/n, 4...

ion: Encounters and Avoidance,” at www.ias.edu/ideas/2016/bois-picasso. T H E B A R N E S FO U N D A T IO N A R C H IV E S M A T IS SE , P A R IS Matisse in the Barnes Foundation The hand-to-hand combat between the artist and fifty-two square meters of surface G16-24022_Newsletteril_Spring2016_FINAL.qxp_Layout 1 4/29/16 10:35 AM Page 12

We introduce an R package named picasso, which implements a unified framework of pathwise coordinate optimization for a variety of sparse learning problems (Sparse Linear Regression, Sparse Logistic Regression and Sparse Poisson Regression), combined with efficient active set selection strategies. Besides, the package allows users to choose different sparsityinducing regularizers, including the...

This paper presents recent development on text-dependent speaker verification technology in EU project PICASSO, which have improved the SV performance significantly. In the project we adopt HMM approach for pattern matching. In the paper we describes four different techniques, adaptive variance flooring, multiple use of enrolment sample, generalised competitive measurement for score normalisati...

We present a non-uniform static analysis for the π-calculus that is built on a denotational semantics of the language and is useful in detecting instances of information leakage and insecure communications in systems with multi-level security policies. To ensure the termination of the analysis, we propose an abstraction, which maintains a finite number of names to be generated by any process. W...

these two girls' productions, particularly the various types of distortion of the naturalistic appearance of objects, are also employed by the most original and successful artists, for instance, Paul Klee and Picasso. She says we do not know whether these artists achieved this mode of expression through subjective experimentation, or by being influenced by seeing the art of mentally disturbed p...